Community Profiles

Community profiles are used and recognised as tools for development. They are found to be useful foundations for policy makers and also practitioners within a wide range of service and policy processes

A nightmare of imperialism

This article presents a detailed account of the U.S. misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan causing untold miseries to humankind besides adversely affecting its own image and severe melt down of its own economy.

Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the interests of the US

The aim of this essay is to discuss the claim that a premature withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan may not be in the best interests of the United States. The American military presence in Afghanistan is one of the most important issues of contemporary international relations. During the past decade the topic of the US and NATO troops in Afghanistan has risen on the political agenda.

Human Rights In Russia

In the recent decades, number of the NGOs in Russia has growing rapidly. Russia is the third largest trading partner of the EU and the economic factors have play a dominant role in determining the EU’s human rights policies vis-??-vis Russia

human security

The concept of human security does not challenge the relevance of the state-centric arguments in so far as these concern the protection of the state from external military violence. However, the concept does show that state-centric realism is not a sufficient security argument in that it does not adequately address the security of people within states and therefore does not serve as the dominant understanding.

Humanitarian intervention: united nations in rwanda

The concept of humanitarian intervention can be traced back to medieval theorists like Thomas Aquinas and international legal theorists such as Vitoria and Grotius. According to these thinkers, a prince’s right to rule his people could be breached if human wellbeing was severely compromised due to natural disasters or the prince’s own depravity (Morgenthau 1967). Under these situations, foreign princes had a right or, rather, an obligation, to intervene in order to alleviate human suffering, by force if need be. As the notion of state sovereignty came increasingly to dominate International Law after 1648, humanitarian intervention fell out of favour. But in the post-Cold War order, the concept appears to have emerged once again, so much so that some have declared that ‘sovereignty is no longer sacrosanct’ (Copra and Weiss 1992 cited in Ayoob 2002: 84; Krasner 1995).